LIKHI (lIeb. /ik-khee', learned), a Manassite, the third named of the sons of Shem ida, the son of Manasseh (t Chron. vii:t9). He left few, if any, descendants, (B. C. after 195o).
Lnarro (lik'ing), in the A. V. used both as a noun, meaning condition, plight (Job xxxix:4), "Their young ones arc in good /i/eing•,." and as a participle meaning "conditioned" (Dan. i:to).
LILY (111'3% (Gr. Kplvop kri'non). The lily is frequently mentioned in the Authorized Version of the Old Testament as the translation of 1";N% (shoo-shan').
This plant is mentioned in the well-known and beautiful passage (Matt. vi :28) : 'Consider thc lilies of the field, how they grow ; they toil not, neither do they spin, and yet I say unto you, that even Solomon, in all his glory, was not arrayed like one of these ;' so also in Luke xii :27. Here it is evident that the plant alluded to must have been indigenous or grown wild, in the vicinity of the sea of Galilee, must have been of an orna mental character, and from the Greek term xplvov being applied to it, of a lilaceous nature. Travelers in Palestine mention that in the month of January the fields and groves everywhere abound with various species of lily, tulip, and narcissus.
A species of lily (the Lilium ehaleedonieum of botanists) is in flower at the season of the year when the sermon on the Nlount is supposea to have been spoken, is indigenous in thc very local ity, and is conspicuous, even in the garden, for its remarkable showy flowers, there can now be little doubt that it is the plant' alluded to by our Savior. This is much more likely to be the
plant intended than some others which have been adduced, as, for instance, the scarlet amaryllis, having white flowers with bright purple streaks. found by Salt at Adowa. Others have preferred the Croton imperial, which is a native of Persia and Cashmere. Most authors have united in con sidering the white lily, Lilium candidum, to be the plant to which our Savior referred ; but it is doubtful whether it has ever been found in a wild state in Palestine. This opinion is confirmed by a correspondent at Aleppo (Gardener's Chronicle, iii. 429), who has resided long in Syria, but is ac quainted only with the botany of Aleppo and An tioch: never saw the white lily in a wild state, nor have I heard of its being so in Syria. It 1S cultivated here on the roofs of the houses in pots as an exotic bulb, like the daffodil.' J. F. R.